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Nathan Benn

Friday, December 15, 2017

St. Albans, 1973. Photo: Nathan Benn

I drove to Vermont during a cold snap – four below zero, a white skim over the land – to see Nathan Benn’s photographs at the Shelburne Museum. On my way, I passed fields, some barren, others filled with solar panels. I saw grape vines withered on metal trellises, dealerships selling John Deere, stray bales of hay. Much of it looked as it did in 1973 when Benn first arrived in Vermont. Read more